Site Reliability Engineering Manager II at Flywire
Chicago, IL
$160,000–$200,000from the description
Jul 6, 2026
Chicago, IL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A management role within a global SRE function, responsible for coordinating a team of site reliability engineers embedded across software engineering groups. Day-to-day work spans mentoring engineers, driving production excellence initiatives, participating in on-call incident response, and contributing to infrastructure design across a cloud-based, distributed platform. Suited to someone with hands-on SRE experience who has also led or grown engineering teams.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Mid, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 4 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 14,700 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 8,800–22,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The title 'Manager II, Site Reliability Engineering' signals a people-management role (hiring, mentoring, tracking team goals, managing risk and time), which maps primarily to 11-3021. However, the JD also requires hands-on SRE/engineering work — on-call participation, debugging production issues, driving feature design — making 15-1252 a genuine runner-up.
Advertised seniority is set to Mid based on the explicit 'Manager II' level designation in the title. The actual scope (5+ years SRE experience, 2–5 years leading teams, org-wide production excellence initiatives) supports Senior.
The 2–5 years of leading/managing SRE teams is stated as a requirement but is a range; the 5-year SRE floor is used for the overall years minimum as the primary role-level gate.
Programming language experience is required but no single language is mandated — the 'Some Technologies We Use' section lists Ruby, Java, Kotlin, Go, Node, and Python as the team's stack. These are captured as preferred/stack context since the JD does not gate on any specific one.
Container ecosystem, cloud infrastructure, build systems, and CI/CD are called out as key for success in the requirements section. Docker and AWS are named in the stack and treated as the concrete representatives of those gates; Terraform and Chef appear only in the stack narrative and are marked preferred.
TDD/BDD is explicitly called 'highly valued' (not required), so it is marked preferred.
The posting states '#LI-Hybrid' in the footer, but the caller has declared this a fully-remote role; remote is set to true accordingly.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): team leadership.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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